More than a feeling --Short Story 4-- Chp 1

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I've been having this relapsing dream and under normal circumstances I would normally pay no attention, but this isn't a normal dream, because the event strike a cord with my curiosity, and the people depicted are of those who I know placed in a sci-fi setting. Some of you might not like the direction that I take, maybe because you affiliate other wise or maybe because you honestly feel that the person in question at opening is honestly hurting us, and some are going to get the joke and laugh while other will take a more serious tone to it, which is all okay.

So back to this dream, as you can assume I am going to tell you my dream, but not just plain out tell you in simple lexicon without a single flourish of imagery or imagination. With that said I bring you this untitled Short Story 4.


--A Story--


A loud thump came from the door, nothing unusual for my morning, just the news paper arriving at the apartment door via a toss of some willing stranger working for his pay, and although most of us for the most part have no relation with our paper boy we know that he's alive and well because everyday you hear that familiar thump at your door, and when you don't you tend not to think much of it, and for the most part that is true. So why is it that I can't shake the though
of a simple news paper boy.

Maybe because I am uncertain that I will ever see life as it used to be. They call me mic, short for micca the asexual name that my parent decided to give to me, and even though I wondered and searched over internet text of names this name always seem to stir some confusion. Micca isn't that a girls name? stranger would always ask. Yes i replied but its also a boys name. Oh, I didn't know that they respond. I've only heard it on girls. I try not to look offended that I was just called girl.

Yet another memory of times past, but as not to get ahead, I should explain. The year is 2029 and it's May, or at least I think it is at least the season feels that way. When you feel the heat rise ever so slightly that it begins to start a chain of "oh its hot today" and even if you don't think it is you always seem to reply "yes it is". Yet in order to understand I must go a bit further than 2029, to the year 2009. That year I had barely turned five, and although I remember not much beside from what we were taught in school and or random parent conversation that a young child sometimes tunes into. I remember this, Obama won that the electing that past Fall, and that he changed the course of almost every American by implementing new methods, that as my parent would say helped us all, as far I am concerned I can't say because I was only a child and when your that young you know no difference and because I grew up with this new government I only reaped the benefits, but what had change was America was more socialized, because of that no one seemed to be suffering, with free education and free health care, and no lack of jobs, and if you disliked your job you could easily switch to a new one. Stress was at an all time low people life expectancy was high. Everything was good.

Well not everything, with all things there is a downside. That was given up some personal freedoms, and the state of other nations. While U.S. was becoming a utopia elsewhere war ranged on. In 2012 Iran launched a massive attack against Israel, and while the U.S. deciding not to Intervene, Iran easily won, but that was the beginning, with all victories comes domination and soon Iran went from becoming one nation to four nation all taken by force and all ignored by the U.S. At first one would think well if not the U.S. what happened with the U.K. involvement. Shortly after the first raid on Israel, The U.K. suffered massive losses and seeing as how U.S. would send any help they withdrew, and they flourished along with the U.S. . Also in mid 2009 after the swine flu pandemic had increased and they closed the border and the recession got deeper, and the U.S. seem like it was hopeless, after the pandemic had made its course it had wiped 2% of the earth population according to the CDC with Mexico suffering the most casualties. Thats when Obama administration signed a new bill that focused not only on infrustructure but new renewble energy, which brought our deficit to a new time low. At the time the American Public had its worry.

With the small take over of Israel, Turkey, Iraq and Syria that lasted from 2011 to 2015, their was worry about war comming over to the States, even though Americas refusual to get involved, at the same time NASA and the BNSC established the first mars colony. Developing a series of new technology more notably the new solar panel which harvest 80% of the actual energy opposed to 3% witht the fund provided by the bill signed three year earlier. Which changed everything in the energy industry causing oil price to declined sharply. Many countries who depends on oil went bankrupt, but not diminished. Soon technology received a boost, with energy so cheap everyone was inventing all new sort of thing eventually an old world rapidly became a new world and that new world became my world. All the thing you had imagined, from gliding card on a magnitised system to semi-artificial intelligence. The best thing about the world that had changed was pollution, it had drastically reduced. the affect of it were apparent in health people health increased drastically cancer rate drop, and the life span increased.

Finally what was not mentioned with the U.S. doing well in almost every aspect of its economy, and when Obama signed the American Obligation Commision Act, everyone had a job, at some level.

Thats is how at age 25, 20 years later I got my first job. It was mid-april and I spent most of my life just taking it easy, taking it my way, doing what I wanted as most adult my age did. College had was free and everyone seemed to have a degree and there was an over saturation someone had to stay home. I had been on my own since i was 18 doing odd technical jobs here and there for pay, I just didn't want to work I saw no benifit. Until my brother came along, but its not so much that it was just him he had brought 4 other people with him. I had not seen my brother for 5 years and all sudden he shows up, with four kids!

I was angry at first, then I had no choice to understand, his wife and his sister in law died in a electrical accident, killing her and two of the kids parents, beacuse two of those kids were his nephews in law, oh so complicated it made my brain hurt. I had met them 5 years ago Abby was just six, and Matthew was 7, Michael my brothers first nephew in law was 12 at the time and his sister Diana was 10. So now I had a 10, 12, 15 ,17 soon to be 18 year old in my small one bedroom oh and my brother he had recently turned 30.